| Full name | East Kilbride Thistle Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Jags | ||
| Founded | 1968 | ||
| Ground | Showpark, Maxwell Drive East Kilbride (Capacity: 2300) |
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| Chairperson | John Drummond | ||
| Manager | Jimmy Kerr | ||
| League | SJFA West Super League First Division | ||
| 2010–11 | 6th | ||
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East Kilbride Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire near Glasgow. Nicknamed The Jags, they were formed in 1968 and play at the Showpark, situated in the Village area of East Kilbride. Currently playing in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they wear black and white striped or all black strips (uniforms) with a black trim. Their change strip is all red.
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The club's greatest achievement to date is when they won the Scottish Junior Cup in May 1983 when they beat Bo'ness United at Ibrox Stadium. The final result was 2–0 to Thistle, with goals from skipper Joe Reilly and Kenny Gordon.
Thistle's previous manager was former St. Johnstone and Hamilton Academical striker John Brogan, who took charge along with Martin Clark on a co-manager basis in November 1999. Clark left to coach Celtic's youth players in 2002, but Brogan remained in sole charge and won the Sectional League Cup at Partick Thistle's Firhill Stadium, Glasgow in 2002 with a 2–0 win over Bellshill Athletic, thanks to goals from Martin McVey and Stephen Brogan.
Brogan later returned the club to Firhill for another Sectional League Cup Final in 2005 but were unfortunate to lose to Neilston 4–3 on penalties, after a 0–0 draw. However it wasn't all bad news when the club won promotion to Super League Division One, from Central District League Division One, with a 3–0 win over Clydebank in the last game of the season on May 1, 2006.
John Brogan left the club in June 2008, and was replaced by former players Colin Mitchell and Ian Penman, as manager and assistant manager respectively. In 2008 Thistle also launched their own youth development structure, which sees coaching an teams from under 4s up to under 21s for both boys and girls.
In November 2010, Mitchell and Penman were replaced as team management by Jimmy Kerr and Tony Gallagher. The next big step for the club will be when the new owner takes over at the end of the current season and the building of the new 15,000 seater stadium begins.
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